From time to time we take pictures of bicycles but it’s not always easy to weave them into the narrative of the blog, so I thought I would collect them here. As with the things-made-from-tyres post, the latest pics will be at the top and the date will always be the last date of posting.
Latest is a very simple tricycle from the Old Shops museum in Rochefort.
Saw this in the Old Shops museum in Rochefort and it was just so simple I couldn’t resist it. Bit like “S” really ha had cheap joke.
I was not quick enough on the camera to capture this one, so here’s a picture from the web, but believe me guv, one of these did come past when we were (finally) having lunch in Quissac.
Now your first thought will be “This is as mad as it comes” although if you do end up having a bit of a look for recumbent tandems you will find you are only scratching the surface of some very deep nut-hatchery. But actually it has one big advantage, which is that the person behind does not have their nose in the person in front’s bum. Oh and apparently also it folds up so you can get it into your muesli-powered car (sorry cheap eco-joke there).
This isn’t one of my photos, but it’s a project that another Neilson guest told me about. In “Velocipedia“, Gianluca Gimini asked people to draw bicycles from memory and then created proper, rendered pictures from the drawings. Do, please click through to the site and play “Why wouldn’t this one work”, it is tremendous fun.
I didn’t know you could still buy penny-farthings (or “5€c-1€c-s” but that lacks a certain poetry). But look, here is one locked up in someone’s front garden. And Mr Google says I can actually buy one from unicycle.co.uk – the price varies a lot depending on how big the front wheel is. Ha ha this will keep you busy clicking and learning for the next 30 minutes…
This is an absolute first for us, a five-wheeled bicycle. A quincycle? Or pentacycle, I guess, as it was sighted on the road to Mytilini in Lesvos (as you might have been able to guess from some subtle clues in the picture).
This is the custom officer’s bike of choice in Kucukkuyu, which he happily demonstrated for us. It’s a Bianchi too.
We think this might be a unicycle with stabilisers. Seen round the corner from the Istanbul flat.
Bianchi branching out into folding shopping bikes. Actually we have seen quite a few Bianchi-branded everyday bikes, so it is possible that this is not a spoof.
A precursor of the e-bike? Perhaps an improvement on the original attempt where they tried to put a car battery in the shopping basket? (I can tell you from experience that it is too heavy, by the way.)
A rail bicycle. Or tricycle, I guess.